The examples and discussion of using the new 40-150 to capture friendly critters, adorable grandchildren, and slow running gentlemen got me thinking about what DO i really need circa 300m focal lengths for? So I did some experiments with an 180mm Elmarit-R on an E-P5. Once I got the 5-axis IBIS tuned in to the actual focal length, it's not that hard to hand-hold, and critters of the feline persuasion abound in our neighborhood:
The extreme compression and perspective that you get with 360 mm effective is always fun:
Long lenses see things that you aren't aware of when framing a scene. Here I discovered a gentleman soaking up the last golden rays of the afternoon sun in a nice soft couch in the middle of heaps of dirt, stone, and construction supplies:
And the species that really dominates our city, more than the cats, is the rooftop solar hot water unit, pronounced "Dude Shemesh" in Hebrew. It's a white barrel for the water, next to a flat plate heat collector. See how many you can count in this photo:
One last thing that you can do with a very long lens, is see the bigger pieces of sculpture in the gardens of the Israel Museum after it has closed for the day:
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